Adam and Eve

At some point after they lost their place, Eve discovered that loving is both the hardest and the easiest thing you'll ever do. Probably a little later (guys always get it a little later), Adam realized that being loved is the greatest freedom as well as the most profound responsibility you'll ever own. In the cool of the day sometime after the fall, they understood love as they remembered what it was like to walk in intimacy with a God who loved them deeply. The longing they knew down deep in return awakened something within for each other. This might no longer be paradise, but it could be Heaven on earth.  What made it so was not the absence of sweat and tears, but the presence of each other. Great pain awaited them as it always does if we live long enough, but the hurt along the way could never overshadow what they gained from walking through it with someone who fully understood and shared the consequences of it. And in their oneness, they reflected not only one another but God himself.